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Trouble Shooting
Problem 1 - Inadequate heat being delivered to your home
Solution:
- Is furnace the recommended BTU size for your home?
- Check home insulation – is it adequate?
- Is coal feed rate and draft blower at optimal setting for your situation.
- Do you have a good draft of minus 0.06 water column? If not, check and clean chimney and single wall
chimney connector.
- Do you have the appropriate amount of duct work and return vents installed?
- Do you have return duct connected to return box of distribution blower? If not connect it.
Problem 2 - Poor Draft
- Check and clean fly ash from furnace, chimney and single wall chimney connectors
- Check chimney draft – there should be at least a minus 0.06 inch of water column.
This service is provided by a certified chimney sweep or a professional installer.
- If you have a barometric damper? Is it installed properly? Read the instructions.
- Check ash pit. If it is too full - empty it.
- There might be a cracked flue liner. If so you need to reline chimney before further use of the furnace.
- Make sure no other fuel burning devices are connected to the chimney impairing the draft.
- Make sure all of chimney mortar connections are airtight.
- Check chimney for possible down draft caused by taller surrounding trees or objects.
- Make sure clean-out door in the chimney is closed tight if you have one.
- When start up, the chimney is cold so you will have less draft.
- Check and clean chimney and single wall chimney connectors
Problem 3 - Odor from first fire
- Uncured paints and oils will create an odor that can last a few hours. Odors can continue to develop
if you make hot fires until the paint cures.
Problem 4 - Out-Fire
(see Out-Fire section page 11)
- Is power indicator light: On
- Is shear pin sheared
- Timer operates too infrequently.
- Timer “ON” operation too short. Chose timer setting with longer on time and shorter off time.
- Excessive draft
- Too little draft
- Too much combustion air
- Not feeding coal
- Stoker will not run
- Exhaust fan in building
- Control failure
- Too little coal feed
Problem 5 - Carbon Monoxide
- Burning wet coal
- Poor draft due to partially choked chimney flue (see poor draft section above)
- Check all gaskets and seals on furnace and auger fittings for cracks or leaks
- Coal hopper lid not sealed
Problem 6 - Heat in auger pipe
- Increase auger feed rate
- Decrease combustion blower speed
